Hexactinoderma

No picture of Hexactinoderma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hexactinoderma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PileolitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247.5 Mya241 Mya

5 occurrences of Hexactinoderma on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Karchowice Beds — 50.58°N, 18.20°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EKarchowice — 50.50°N, 18.30°E

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The named rock units Hexactinoderma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hexactinoderma and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Hexactinoderma and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hexactinoderma, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Hexactinoderma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hexactinoderma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hexactinoderma was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPileolitidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pisera and Bodzioch 1991